Clansy BarcklowTechnical support & QA

Greeley, Colorado · Open to full-time opportunities

Find the problem.
Verify the answer.
Make it clear.

I’m Clansy, a technical support and quality assurance professional. I troubleshoot systems, test code and complex files, and turn findings into clear next steps.

Focused on technical and application support, product support, and technical QA. Remote preferred; open to strong Northern Colorado opportunities.

Clansy Barcklow
Technical work. Thoughtful communication.

150+ Python & C# submissions evaluated

40+ independent technical project deliveries

12-person remote operations team

01 / Experience

Hands-on work.
Across systems and quality.

Contract, independent, and platform operations experience—connected by investigation, validation, and clear documentation.

Mercor

Sep 2026 – Present

IT Professional Services Contractor · Contract · Remote

Design and validate AI evaluation tasks across documents, spreadsheets, presentations, images, JSON/HTML, audio, video, and archived files against precise ground-truth requirements.

Perform structured QA on AI outputs, identifying extraction, calculation, file-interpretation, and cross-document analysis errors.

Practice Server

Jan 2025 – Present

Community Operations & Systems Support Specialist · Contract · Remote

Resolve account, access, and technical issues within a 500,000+ member online community. Triage cases, investigate Linux permission and configuration failures, document guidance, and escalate complex issues through established workflows.

Contributed to an approximately 30% reduction in support backlog by standardizing P1–P4 triage and escalation procedures across a 12-person remote operations team.

Independent IT Consultant

Jan 2023 – Present

Self-employed · Greeley, Colorado

Delivered 40+ technical projects for residential and small-business needs, spanning workstation builds, Windows/Linux deployment, system repair, networking, malware remediation, data recovery, and client handoff.

Troubleshoot DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, router configuration, and end-to-end connectivity.

DataAnnotation

Jan 2024 – Jul 2026

Technical QA & AI Validation Analyst · Contract · Remote

Validated 150+ Python and C# submissions in isolated Docker environments for correctness, runtime behavior, instruction adherence, and edge cases.

Investigated logic, dependency, configuration, environment-path, and permission failures using Linux tools; documented findings in structured defect reports.

02 / Selected projects

From a support problem
to a working model.

Personal projects that connect troubleshooting with service design, data, and identity workflows.

01

Northstar
Support Operations

Jira Service Management · JQL · SQL · UAT

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A service management portfolio for a fictional SaaS business, connecting intake, prioritization, escalation, and reporting.

Built a JSM environment with 6 request types, 8 JQL queues, and a 5-state workflow. Designed P1–P4 SLA and escalation policies, an 8-table SQL schema, and 25 analytical queries.

Created 15 user stories, UAT cases, and knowledge-base documentation to connect requirements with testable behavior.

OpenIn progressResolved

Workflow also includes Waiting for Customer and Escalated states.

02

Identity Lifecycle Lab

Active Directory · Entra ID · PowerShell

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A personal lab exploring account provisioning, access assignment, and deprovisioning.

Built an Active Directory / Microsoft Entra ID lab with CSV-driven PowerShell for account creation, OU placement, group assignment, and deprovisioning.

Documented least-privilege access and troubleshooting procedures for authentication, MFA, Conditional Access, permissions, and provisioning failures.

Identity inputAccess actionsVerification

Personal lab and runbook work.

03 / Capabilities

Technical depth.
Practical context.

Support & troubleshooting

Windows · Linux · account/access support · case triage · escalation · DNS/DHCP/TCP/IP · technical documentation

Technical quality assurance

Docker · Python/C# code evaluation · runtime and dependency diagnosis · edge-case testing · structured defect reporting · complex-file validation

Project experience

Jira Service Management · JQL · SQL · requirements and UAT · Active Directory · Entra ID · PowerShell · identity lifecycle workflows

04 / Education

University of
Northern Colorado

B.S. Business Administration — Computer Information Systems

Graduated May 2026 · GPA 3.72 / 4.0
Dean’s List · 3 semesters

Jira Service Management with AI Fundamentals

Atlassian · Earned credential

Let’s connect

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